Climate Attribution

Forest fire threatens global carbon sinks and population centres under rising atmospheric water demand

November 2022
Hamish Clarke, Rachael H. Nolan, Victor Resco De Dios, Ross Bradstock, Anne Griebel, Shiva Khanal & Matthias M. Boer
Nature Communications
This study finds that climate change is projected to lead to widespread increases in fire risk, with at least 30 additional days above critical thresholds for fire activity in forest biomes on every continent by 2100 under rising emissions scenarios.Read More →

Atmospheric observations suggest methane emissions in north-eastern China growing with natural gas use

November 2022
Fenjuan Wang, Shamil Maksyutov, Rajesh Janardanan, Aki Tsuruta, Akihiko Ito, Isamu Morino, Yukio Yoshida, Yasunori Tohjima, Johannes W. Kaiser, Xin Lan, Yong Zhang, Ivan Mammarella, Jost V. Lavric, Tsuneo Matsunaga
Nature Scientific Reports
Using atmospheric and satellite observations of methane, this study estimates poorly-measured methane emissions in China, and concludes that China's increased methane emissions are largely attributable to the growth in China's natural gas use.Read More →

Climate change alters impacts of extreme climate events on a tropical perennial tree crop

November 2022
Thomas J. Creedy, Rebecca A. Asare, Alexandra C. Morel, Mark Hirons, John Mason, Yadvinder Malhi, Constance L. McDermott, Emmanuel Opoku, Ken Norris
Nature Scientific Reports
This peer-reviewed study analyzes the impact of fluctuations in the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on cocoa production in Ghana, as a model for understanding the impact of anthropogenic climate change and resulting ENSO fluctuation.Read More →

Evidence of sweet corn yield losses from rising temperatures

October 2022
Daljeet S. Dhaliwal, Martin M. Williams II
Nature Scientific Reports
This peer-reviewed study analyzes 27 years of sweet corn data to quantify the impacts of temperature and precipitation variation and intensity on the yield of sweet corn, and predicts increasing yield losses from climate change without adaptation.Read More →

Seasonal increase of methane emissions linked to warming in Siberian tundra

October 2022
Norman Rößger, Torsten Sachs, Christian Wille, Julia Boike, Lars Kutzbach
Nature Climate Change
This paper assesses methane emissions from the North Siberian Lena River Delta, providing the first observational evidence of an increasing trend of early summer methane emissions from tundra wetlands linked to atmospheric warming.Read More →